Two best paper awards were presented during the 2009 PHM Conference:

Best Paper - Applications and Implementation: Seth S. Kessler, Christopher T. Dunn, Michael Borgen, Ajay Raghavan, Jeffrey Duce, and David L. Banks, "A Cable-Free Digital Sensor-Bus for Structural Health Monitoring of Large Area Composite Structures"
Best Paper - Theory and Research: Bhaskar Saha and Kai Goebel, "Modeling Li-ion Battery Capacity Depletion in a Particle Filtering Framework"